Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

392 • Glossary Attenuation theory of attention Anne Treisman’s model of selective attention that proposes that selection occurs ...

Glossary • 393 Broca’s aphasia A condition associated with damage to Broca’s area, in the frontal lobe, characterized by difficu ...

394 • Glossary Cognitive interview A procedure used for interviewing crime scene witnesses that involves letting witnesses talk ...

Glossary • 395 Constructive nature of memory The idea that what people report as memories are constructed based on what actually ...

396 • Glossary Design fixation Presenting a sample design influences the creation of new designs. (12) Dichotic listening The pr ...

Glossary • 397 Exemplar In categorization, members of a category that a person has experienced in the past. (9) Exemplar approac ...

398 • Glossary Frontal lobe The lobe in the front of the brain that serves higher functions such as language, thought, memory, a ...

Glossary • 399 Illusory conjunctions A situation, demonstrated in experiments by Anne Treisman, in which features from different ...

400 • Glossary Late closure In parsing, when a person encounters a new word, the parser assumes that this word is part of the cu ...

Glossary • 401 Memory consolidation Process by which experiences or information that has entered the memory system becomes stren ...

402 • Glossary Natural selection, theory of The idea, originating with Darwin, that genetically based characteristics that enhan ...

Glossary • 403 Partial report method Procedure used in Sperling’s experiment on the properties of the visual icon, in which part ...

404 • Glossary Precueing A procedure in which participants are given a cue that will usually help them carry out a subsequent ta ...

Glossary • 405 Recognition memory Identifying a stimulus that was encountered earlier. Stimuli are presented during a study peri ...

406 • Glossary Rule-based approach (to mechanical reasoning) Applying a rule to solve a mechanical reasoning problem. Contrasts ...

Glossary • 407 Similarity, law of Law of perceptual organization that states that similar things appear to be grouped together. ...

408 • Glossary Structural features (modal model) Stages in the modal model of memory. These stages are sensory memory, short-ter ...

Glossary • 409 Transfer-appropriate processing When the type of task that occurs during encoding matches the type of task that o ...

410 • Glossary Word frequency effect The phenomenon of faster reading time for high-frequency words than for low-frequency words ...

References • 411 Adamson, R. E. (1952). Functional fixedness as related to problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology, ...